Making Progress ...

Slowly but surely the quilt for my grand-daughter

is moving along, faster progress would be

made if my back didn't limit the time I can sit and sew!

These rows are just pinned onto the design wall presently

tomorrow I should be able to get them together.

I'm quilting this myself but doing it in two halves, I don't

feel like wrangling another large quilt through the machine.

Progress has been made with my Rail Fence as part of

the Quilt Along over at
Cultural Fusions Quilt Blog,

in addition to my blog here I also post there, quite a group
of us are now contributing.

So one more to add to the quilting line!
A second Rail Fence will be cut out, all being well, next week.
The blocks are a good size - 16 inches and quite addictive!

Something exciting is on the cards with
Kaja of Sew Slowly
and
Ann of Fret Not Yourself
coming up with the great idea of an improv online group

Ad Hoc Improv Quilters

go along to either blog, or both,  to see what it's all about, I have
a button also on my side bar.

That's all for now, hoping to have something to post
for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this weekend, see you then.

Maureen

Catching up

It's been a busy week with grandchildren, working on my Rail Fence quilt for the Quiltalong at
Cultural Fusion Quilts
 and working out which fabrics in my stash I'm going to hang on to and which

can find a new home, I desperately need to cull!

I have been able to get 6 Scrappy Mountain blocks together

in black!

Notice the pukekos - they are contrary little creatures and
do things a little differently to what we would expect!

Hopefully I can get out in the garden for a little while late afternoon,

it's a beautiful Spring day  even though Spring doesn't officially

hit us until September 1st. Daffodils are blooming, bluebells budding up, camellias

full of flowers  and yesterday we bought super size punnets of viola and stock from the

garden  centre nearby, the stock plants are just in flower and the scent is heavenly, I've

planted them by the path to the front entrance.

I love this time of the year!

If you would like to see more black or neutral projects go along to

soscrappy and RSC 2015

for the link-up.

Rainbow colours and Rail Fence

Time to post to Rainbow Scrap Challenge again, the week just flies by these days.

Colour for this month was Indigo but there were a few folk, myself included,

for whom indigo was going to be difficult on the fabric front so

a substitute  of orange of neutral was allowed 

they are a very deep orange and granted two of them do have a little

red in there. I didn't want to use light shades in the "mountain" because

of the neutrals making up the background of the block.

Two more should be made this week.

Visit Angela at soscrappy to see more goodies

Rail Fence with Sujata had me busy on a few more blocks this
week, these blocks go together like a dream, so quilt and the freestyle cutting
is extremely liberating!

I only have four more blocks to put through the machine
to have my 12 block quilt, hopefully I can get that together
this week.

To see more more from the Rail Fence Quilt Along organised
by Sujata head over to
Cultural Fusion Quilts

Happy quilting for the week ahead.

Maureen

Bits and Pieces

Somehow I never got my act together with posts over the past week, I 

was finishing up cutting extra squares for High Flyer (due to my

cutting a number of the originals too small)  and they're now

slowly going up on the wall.

More small two piece sections sewn for Scrap Vortex

now to start on mating them up into similar sized pieces.

I contribute to
Cultural Fusion Quilts blog hosted by Sujata

and she is running a Rail Fence Quilt Along -  the button
is on my side bar to take you there.

Not happy with these for the QAL so a rethink is underway,
why I went with solids I don't know!

 You can see below my inspiration for the green block below

That's it for today, on the agenda is moving two pieces of furniture in my
studio, necessary as Daisy (17yr old cat) has decided to make
her sleeping quarters scooting under my machine table and
settling herself in way, way back underneath an adjoining table on a crate of dyed silks!!!
Cat heaven I think.
I have to wheel the machine set up out of the way to try and reach her.

Enjoy the week
Maureen